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Tori Spelling, Loveable Poor Little Rich Girl

By SexyChattyCatty

CONFESSION TIME! I LIKE...TORI SPELLING. There, I said it and I feel the lightness that comes with dumping secrets.

The doe-eyed star, going into the second season of her reality show, "Tori And Dean, Home Sweet Hollywood," has always been a favorite of mine.

I was thinking about this while looking at "Death of a Cheerleader," on Lifetime this weekend. (Okay, maybe I should keep some secrets.) And I never miss a showing of "Mother, May I Sleep With Danger," the "funniest bad" movie in creation. What is it about Tori that makes me feel like we could be friends in real life?

I am as far away from being a thin, blonde, rich young starlet as cheese is to the moon. But although Tori was raised a child of extreme privilege, I have the feeling that it has never really affected her. Maybe it's the way she treats her nanny; maybe it was how funny she was in her short-lived show, NoTorious; maybe it's her nose.

She only spent a short time as a nightclub hellraiser with pal Shannon Doherty. And her only real scandal has been dating her husband Dean McDermott while they were both still married, then supposedly getting cut out of her father's will: she was reportedly left only $800,000 of the Spelling millions.

Was it the insecurity she showed when her husband had a hot, young scuba instructor? She's the only woman I've heard admit that since she stole her husband away from someone else it could also happen to her. I was blown away that a Hollywood starlet could realize this.

They seem to struggle, she and Dean. It seems she's always struggled, first to get out from under the Spelling name. Then, to prove she could act. Now by teaming up with another B actor and putting every bump and bruise out there for all to see.

Thanks for keeping it real, Tori. I'm cheering for ya.

SexyChattyCatty comments periodically at CrabbyGolightly.com on TV, America's favorite snack food.